07 August 2016

Thomas Frank: The Rise of the Professional Plutocrat and the Betrayal of the Democratic Base


The Bush government of hacks and cronies was replaced by Obama's government of 'well pedigreed and highly educated'experts,' and nothing changed...  The professional class, the so-called meritocracy, have just learned to repeat all the same phrases, and are the servants of the prevailing orthodoxy.

Thomas Frank